Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 291, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1922 — Page 4
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JuiUtra Sails Sliutes - INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephone—MA in 3500. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. l , . ... New York, Boston, Payne, Burns A Smith, Inc. AdTertiSlnc offices Chicago, Detroit. St. Louis. Q. Logan Payne Cos. Subscription Rates: Indianapolis, 10c per week; elsewhere, 12c her week. Entered as Second Class Matter, July 25, 1914, at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind., under act M arch 3, 1879. INDIANAPOLIS burglars have started their spring cleaning early. THE MAIN kick against work seems to be that it takes up so much time. Shank and Beveridge Mayor Shank has taken the public into Lis confidence and explained the inside reasons why he is supporting Albert J. Beveridge in his fight for the Republican nomination for United States Senator. “I spent $l5O to go down to Washington to see hiin (New) after I got the nomination,” explained the mayor, “and asked him if he wps with my organization. ‘Well, I’m for the organization,’ he said. ‘No,’ I said, ‘I want to know if you're with my organization,’ and he just replied that he was 'for the organization.’ ” All of which goes to show that Senator New committed a grave tactical blunder when he did not receive the newly elected mayor of Indianapolis in a whole-hearted manner and failed to recognize there had been a political change of consequence in this city. Mayor Shank has also cast aside any doubts that might have been lingering around as to his sincerity in supporting Mr. Beveridge by frankly announcing he will remove city hall employes if they do not line up in behalf of the former Senator. “If they're not for Beveridge they’re not for me,” he said, “and if they’re not for me I won't give them jobs." And to emphasize he means what he says he caused Seth Ward, a former service man, to be removed from his position as transfer clerk in the city assessment bureau because the young man refused to head the Beveridge speakers’ bureau. By one of the strange anomalies of politics, however, Charles A- Bookwaiter, president of the board of commissioners and a Shank appointee, is the chief spokesman for Senator New. “If they’re not for Beveridge, they’re not for me,” says the mayor, and a quizzical public wonders whither the poised city hall ax will next descend. Mr. Beveridge is peculiarly fortunate in having such an ally in Indianapolis. It gives him ample time to become acquainted with the out-county folk and permits him to have the company pt his able lieutenant, Judge Arthur R. Robinson, who feels free to step down from his bench and leave Marion County to stump the State in the interests of his chief, knowing the Beveridge affairs here are being weli looked after.
The Sipe Indictments The indictments of Will H. Latta, a well known attorney, and Edwin A. Hunt, a real estate dealer, and Mrs. Mary Gunter Bell, along with the defaulting former county clerk, Richard V. Sipe, came as a distinct surprise to many Indianapolis citizens who by previous experiences had learned not s o expect thorough and far-reaching examinations into affairs 6uch as the Sipe episode has proved to be. In fact, the long drawn-out probe, which undoubtedly was necessary in order to untangle the snarled transactions the ex-clerk had indulged in. had led to frequent reports that Sipe would be the only one asked by the State to pay the penalty for the free misuse of funds entrusted to his care. ' Men of influence, especially those that wielded a certain amount of political power, have been singularly free of grand Jury entanglements In the past and while it was generally felt that Sipe had not deliberately squandered a fortune of other people’s money ofi his own initiative there was, a prevalent belief the law would be unable to get to the bo - .tom of the affair. Indictment does not necessarily presuppose guilt and all of those named by the grand jury will have an opportunity of defending themselves in court Whether they are guilty or not, however, Prosecutor Evans and the grand jury should he congratulated for having made a thorough investigation and for having had the courage to name men whom they berteve L, Lave participated in the dealings that sent Dick Sipe crashing down. The Cost of War Is there any justification for war? Can any one say that the slaughter incident to war has ever benefited the world? Can any nation, no matter whether it was victor or victim, say that it is satisfied with what war has co6t it, or with the fruits derived from the struggle? Germany would seem to answer all of these Interrogatories In the negative. Germany lost forty-six men; killed and 109 wounded for every hour from the day when her troops piled across the Belgiar border until the final signal was given to cease fighting after the armistice was signed. Her total of killed was 7,808,545, with 4,246,789 wounded. Making up the several levies necessary to keep her armies up to fighting strength during the duration of the war. Germany was forced to put Into the field 13,000,000 men. When we have read of an army being decimated, losing a tenth of its force, we have been shocked by the rlaughter, but during that great war just closed Germany lost one man killed out of each seven that was called into service. Os the officer personnel of the German army, 53,000 were killed and 96,000 wounded. Gen. Von Altrock, noted statistician of Germany, gives the above figures, and further says that the Var, directly, and indirectly, cost the lives of 12,000,000 Germans. Consider these figuPe§. then stop to think of what France lost, what Great Britain lost, what Belgium, Itaiy and Russia lost, not to speak of the lesser nations involved in the war. Add to all this the American boys killed, wounded and crippled by disease and you can see what war means to the world in terms of humanity alone, not to speak of the billions of treasure expended and the devastation wrought. The Unlamented Past ' Do you ever pause in‘the great prohibition desert and conjure up a picture of the saloons that flourished in this country only a few years ago? Now and then men, passing a prominent corner, point to a savings bank or Bpanking-new cigar store, and say: “There used to be a swell barroom here. Gosh! I can remember when Old Crow was passed out at 85 cents a quart and the barkeep apologized for whisky under seven years old.” All that’s left of those ancient whisky dens is the path in the sidewalk, worn by the tramp of drunkards’ feet as they made their rounds, lapping up so much they were ashamed to drink it all in one place. Prominent among the customers was the man who ran in at the stroke of every hour for a highball or small glass of water with a large whiskystraight for a chaser. By 8 o’clock at night the regulars were well tanked and below the din was the friend’s apology: “Don’t mind him, he's a swell fellow when he isn't drunk.” The owl car carried them home—to mothers and wives who sobbed quietly in the stillness of night. There was considerable privation in the average hard drinker’s home, short on funds because of the barroom till’s greedy appetite. A drunken man was disgusting to the good citizen and home builder. A father’s greatest fear was that his son would “get the appetite.” There was another type of saloon —the low-down type that hard drinkers-usually wound up in. It was a den, the rendezvous of criminals, where customers were thrown into the alley after they had been ' tripped of their last cent. The amber fluid in the quart bottle ruined brilliant men by the tens of thousands, wrecked an infinite number of homes and, for those deeply involved, destroyed nearly everything for which life if worth living. That ancient institution, the openly conducted saloon, is gone. Now and then someone with more money than brains gets hold -if a quart for sl2 or more. But fathers aren’t worrying about their sons developing a chronic thirst. Homes are happier, with, less jan&'ing. Mere money in the bank. A woman can ride on an owl car now without da.krer of being insulted. \ There is some futile talk around the mainly coming from smallbore politicians, about infringing upon personal liberty and bringing back light wines and beer. But at heart the country is dry. The proof is, that there Is no responsible sentiment for bringing back the old time saloon or intoxicating beverages of any kind, ■
MAE MURRAY TURNS INTO A SPANISH PEG O y MY HE ART Betty Compson Shines as an Apache —* Smilin’ Through" Is Worth While
Spain has its Ite g O' My Heart Just as Ireland has. You will believe the truth of that statement when you see Mae Murray this week at Loew’s State in “Fascination.” We have waited a long time for Miss Murray to hit her stride on the screen and in “Fascination” she reveals some real acting ability as well as marvelous beatuy. As this movie progresses. one is certain that . ■*’’* Miss Y'urray no longer must rely -i upon ier beauty Sjhf V 1 * to put her across on the Bcre< ' n - Tbp - lady In question jjSaßfcra’’’. r 'is doing some really clever anil notable work in' her latest movie, v ,44-le. She has graduated .s'* from the beauty * -w. exhibit squad into au actress 995 j /jam who knows how to act. 1 never have been strong for sq'uad on the Mae Murray. screen. The screen demands and deserves ability. The screen Is not an (tegdemy for teaching people to act. It’s art is Just as big as the stage. It demands the Some directors and screen actors are realizing this. We have seen recently how popular players on the screen have fallen in public grace because of poor vehicles. Now Miss Murray comes along in “Fascination,” which is a corking good yarn and a vehicle which gives her a chance to create a characterization. Much of the action of “Fascination” takes place in Spain and Miss Murray has a chance to Impersonate a lively miss who Is as full of life as Peg O My Heart was on the stage. Dolores De Lisa, that's the name of the character Impersonated by Miss Murray, is carted off to Spain by a strict aunt who fears that jazz music and Broadway cabarets will keep the fair Dolores from becoming a lady. But the poor aunt forgot that Spain
Ye TOWN 3 GOSSIP ronyrifht, 1922, b/ Star Company. _!!!!_ By K. C. B WHERE I live. • • • THERE'S A business men’s club. •• • , AND THE other night. THEY HAD a dinner, rorn kindred of them. AND SOME are druggists. AVD SOME are plumbers. AND DRY goods men. AND A doctor or two. AND THE neighborhood bankers. • • • AND ACTO men. • • • AND EVERYBODY. AND AN' undertaker AND THE very first thing. WHEN THEY got together. WAS TO all stand around. • • • WHILE A sbng leader man. BLEW A little buzzer. • • • AND GOT the pitch. • • • AND STARTED them off ON “A Long. Long Trail.'' AND I was there. • • • AVD I can’t sing a note. • • • Bl’T I kpew the words. AND I crowded them out. XviTH ALL the force. THAT I could command. AND IT seemed to me. IT HAD been years. • • • SINCE I had been. • • • IN ANY place. • • • wnERE I could yell. • • • AS I yelled there. e • • AND ALTOGETHER. WE SAXO Lur songs. AND ONCE or twice. • • • IT LOOKED to me. • • • AS THOUGH the banker. • • • WOULD BURST hla neck. • • • AND THE undertaker. • • • WAS RIGHT on the verge. • • • OF APOPLEXY? • • • •AND EVERYBODY. MADE FUNNY faces. * * * BUT SOMEHOW or other. ♦ • • WHEN WE were through. • • • I HAD ft fee-ling. • • • I ALWAYS have. • • • WHEN I stand on a hill. • • • AND THERE'S nothing in sight. • • * BUT MILES on miles • • * OF JUST outdoors. *• • * AXD MAYBE Vm nutty. * • * BIT I think always. • mm IT IMPROVES my morals. • * * I THANK you.
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has bull fighters, handsome looking critters at that. Dolores has a flirtation with Carrita, a toreador, bit after some real melodramatic experience with the bull fighting gentlemen, she Is convinced that a tango, hound Is a much better Romeo than the bull fighter. The story Is told in a breezy sort of a manner. One of the big scenes is a bull fight. You may or may not care for such sights, but the director has been clever in not going too far with It. He per nits the movie fan to seee the fight by witnessing the expression on the face of Miss Murray as she looks down into the arena. In the end, Dolores is tajne, and she is glad to settle down and be told to behave. The story is unfolded amid lavish settings. The director has been careful with detail, and, on the whole the picture looks Spanish. “Fascination” is the first Mae Murray picture that I have taken seriously and is the first Murray movie I have enjoyed, because the star for the first time shows some -real ability Instead of only good looks. And Miss Murray is surrounded by a real cast. Just take a look at the cast of “Fe - .nation.” It is as follows: Dolor . Lisa Mae Murray Carlos . . Lisa, her brother Creighton Hale Eduardo do Lica, her father. Charles Lane The Marqutsa de Lisa, her aunt.... Emily Fltzroy C’arrlta. a toreador Robert W. Frazer Ralph Kellogg, an American - Vincent Coleman The Count de Morera... .Courtenay Foote I’arola, a dancer Helen Ware Nerna Francis Pugila Loew's State this week, In connei tlon with the Mae Murray picture, is offering the second edition of “Jazz week.’ The management has gone to large expense to stage its second jazz week. The Jazz attack Is made by Hester Bailey and her .revue; Al, Loew s “Jazz” porter, and the usherettes; Ross Hough. Genevieve Rogers. Charlie Combes, Will Raboe. Dorothy Dees, Billy Wagner, Joe Drake. Jnd Kline, John Robinson and Emil Seidel at the piano. At Loew's State all week.—W. D, H. -I- -I- -!- PRETTY BETTY BECOMES A CLEVER APACHE OF PARIS. Movie producers were kind, very kind, when they selected “The Green Temptation” for her it a movie vehicle.
BILL HAS ANOTHER MOUNTAIN FEUD STORY
William Russell In a scene from "Strength of the Plnea.” At the Isis this week, William ifussell aad Irene Rich are appearing In "Strength of the l'lnes.” The story coiKerni a mountain feud. It gives Russell * his regular fighting chance. The bill also Includes the second round of “The Leather Pushers.”
This movie belongs to that clavs of entertainment known as cultured melodrama. In other words It Is melodrama dressed up in a smart Parisian attire. Miss Compson Is cast bb a member of an Apache gang In Paris She is trained by a clever crook to become a great dancer. When she Is at the height of her fame as a dancer in Paris, the war breaks out. Then for the first time, she realizes that she is a crook playing a losing | game. She become* a nurse near the battle front and for the first time she comes In contact with real men. After the war | she attempts to start life over again In America, but she encounters again the evil infbaenees of the master crook who taught her,ln Paris to be his ehlef aid. The story Is told with plenty of suspense, and one must known nothing of the story to fully appreciate this mystery movie. The story obtalna Its title from the name of a priceless gein which the master crook attempts to steal. Miss Compson appears to advantage in several dance scenes. The Apache cabaret scenes are well handled. Theodora Kosloff registers a big sized hit as the master crook. The east, which Is an excellent one, includes Mahlon Hamilton, See! Edwards, Mary Thurman, Edward Borus and manj others. The picture has been expertly directed and the photography in if the highest quality, the night shots being of special Interest. The late William Desmond Taylor directed this picture and I understand that this Is (he last one he completed before his mysterious murder. The director probably dwelt too much on the strange reformation of the female Apache crook after the war, but somehow It fits right Into the story. As I have said before “The Green Temptation" is boulevard melodrama and It Is entertaining. v At the* Alhambra all week.—W. D. H. -I- -I- -ICONC EKNINO “SMILIN’ THROUGH.” “Smilin' Through," with Norma Talmadge, Is a masterpiece of beauty. It Is one of the few photoplays that deserves to be classed as a worthy and noble piece of work. v Those who attend the theater will recall that “Smilin' Through" was n big success on the stage with Jane Cowl in
the chief roles. On the screen, the same big and worthy success has been accomplished by Miss Talmadge. This screen actress, has caught the spiritual charm of the story, just as Miss Cowl did on the stage. The result is that Norma Talmadge has. given the screen one of the notable screen events of the year. I recall the striking work of Miss Talmadge in “The Passion Flowpr.” At that time, I felt that Miss Talmadge soon, would be able to exhibit her talents In another powerful vehicle. This she has done in “Smilin’ Through.” Indianapolis theater patrons are familar with the story as Stuart Walker gave it a splendid presentation here last summer and Miss Cowl appeared here this season In It, and I will not repeat the story here. The cast for the movie version of “Smilin' Through" is as follows: Kathleen Moony een Norma Talmadge John Carteret Wyndham Standing Kenneth Wayne Jeremiah Wayne Harrison Ford Dr. Owen Alec B. Francis Willie Alnsley Glenn Hunter Ellen Grace Griswold Little Mary (Moonyeen’s sister) Miriam Battista Village Rector Eugene Lockhart Miss Talmadge Is a picture of lovc-liness as Moonyeen, especially when she Is wearing the beautiful old fashioned wedding dress. The tragic scene at the wedding has been handled in an excellent manner. In this scene, Miss Talmadge shows what a really fine actress she Is. She never overacts, but bits the characterization attempted full in the face with her artistry. If you enjoy the better things on the screen, then do not pass up “Smilin’ Through” with Norma Talmadge. • The Talmadge movie is on view all week at the Circle. This theater has Increased Its orchestra to thirty members and Is presenting Circle piano band. Sixteen girls play the piano in this band. It is a unique idea. At the Circle all week.—W. D. H. -I- -!- -1“FOOLISH WIVES” BEGINS SECOND WEEK AT OHIO. Erich Von Stroheim's "Foolish Wives" Is in the second week of Its engagement at the Ohio Theater. Last week It played to big business and Indications are that
all box office records at the Ohio will be shf.ttsred this week. The cast includes Yon Stroheim, Rudolph Christian, Mi.-s Dupont, Maude George, Mae Busch, Dale Fuller and many others. As this department previously has gone Into detail concerning this picture. It Is not necessary to repeat It. We take time to sav that “Foolish Wives" from a technical standpoint is nearly as perfect as a movie can be. it's only weakness is that it has too much sex In It. •I- -I* -IGLORIA SWANSON BECOMES A TRADEMARK. Mister Smiths Tbeuterr this week is contributing Us representative, Glora Swanson, In the competition engaged In by local movie managements In presenting beautiful movie st-ars, Each movie house has special beauty featured in movies this week. Gloria Swanson has been recognized as one of the best dressed women on tho screen. She not only wears stunning gowns, but she knows how to wear them. In "Her Husband's Trademark," Miss Swanson has a chance to appear in many striking costumes. The themi of the story Is centered upon a man who dresses his wife in costly and elegant attire because he works upon the theory that his wife Is really bis trademark. lie uses her as a sort of a trap to entice victims Into hiR net of quick rich schemes. Everything goes lovely until the trademark realizes that she Is not a wife but a trap. She rebels and when a pack of unruly Mexican bandits appear her little rebellion doen-'t compare with the one staged by the tandlts. Os course, thr-husband, who believed In female trademarks. Is killed by the bandits. This picture has been reviewed In this department before. The picture Is crowded full of action. It is light melodrama. It Is the chief offering at Mister Smith’s all week. This house also Is featuring tta music. -I- -I- -I----ON THE BTAGE. The Indianapolis Boys' Club Association will present “Billeted” tonight and Tuesday night at the Murat. Mabel Ford is the chief offering at B. F. Keith’s this week. Shaw's Melody Revue Is being offered
CAR EQUIPPED WITH RADIOPHONE
Duncan Tells More About How Radio Is Sent DAILY RADIO FEATURE
By R. L. DUNCAN, Director. Radio Institute of America. Continuing our trip around the circuit with a wireless wave, we find that tha spark gap Is the next step after the condenser. The purpose of this gap is to discharge the energy stored up in the condenser In the form of radio frequency oscillations. It also quenches the spark —that is, restores the gap to Its non conducting state when Its energy has been passed on to the antenna circuit. The most popular form of spark gap is the quenched. It has several heavy copper glates separated by insulating: nifshers. These are placed In a rack or bolder and pressed tightly together by means of a pressure bolt. The distance between each copper plnte Is not over 1-100 of an inch. The spark ing surface Inside the gap Is absolutely airtight to prevent leakage and sparking which would cause a loss in the output of the current. Each gap requires about 1,200 volts. Using 20,000 volts approximately seventeen gaps would be employed. Next comes the oscillation transformer, consisting of a primary and secondary winding The primary if this la la the closed circuit (consisting of all parts heretofore described) and the secondary is In the open or antenna circuit. The function of the oscillation transformer Is to transfer the energy from the closed circuit to the open. By means of it. the wave length of either circuit can be Increased or decreased by varying the self-inductance of either the primary or secondary coll. When the limit of charge has been reached In the condenser, It discharges through the primary winding of the oscillation transformer across the spark gar This discharge consists of a nnmber of radio oscillations, the frequency of which will be Increased If inductance Is reduced to the primary winding or de creased if lnductauce U added. A reduction In the capacity of a con-
RADIO PRIMER SHORT CIRCUIT—An Intentional or accidental connection by a conductor across the terminals of an electric generator. A shortening of an electric circuit by touching of two bare conductors in which the current runs in opposite directions. , Will Try Two-Way Radio on Liner Simultaneous operation of radio telephone nnd telegraph systeme, so that a passenger on board ship or a shore station telephone subscriber may obtain telephone service by radio even though the wireless telegraph system be In operation will be given a practical test when the 8 S. Amerlea leaves New Y'ork for Bremen on April 16. This ship came Into the radio ltmollght about a month ago when tests of the duplex or two-way wireless telephone were made and pnssengers on the tioat were able to talk to persons In New Y’ork city and other places just as easily as If they had been using an ordinary land telephone system. The original Installation on the America was made only to test out under actual service conditions the problem of twoway telephone operation. The other for the first time became merely an Intermediate toll line in the connection between passenger and land subscriber. These tests were very successful but it was found that operation was somewhat limited by the “right of way” which had to be observed for the regular radio telegraph set on the vessel, and It is this limitation which engineers of the Radio Corporation, General Electric Company nnd the American Telephone & Telegraph Company seek to eliminate on the next voyage, April 15.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY As we therefore have opportunity, let us do good unto nil men.—Galatians 6:10. The more Irksome any habit Is In its formation, the more pleasantly and satisfactorily 1r sticks to yon when formed. —Thomas Hughes. this week at the Lyric. Danny Ltind's Musical Revue and a movie, “At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern," makes up the double bill at the Rialto.
By GEORGE McMANUS.
CAN RUN AND LISTEN, TOO.
denser will like wise Increase the frequency of the oscillations and an increase in capacity will reduce it. Radio on Auto /111 TESTING Al’TO" RADIO BBT IN FRONT OF THE SAN fItANCISCO CITY HALL. SAN FRANCISCO, April 17.—The anto radio is here! Tests of a motor car equipped with an aerial and receiving apparatus have been made successfully here. The antoanna Is supported on two poles which can be folded when not In use and placed alongside the car. At the right of the automobile is an attachment by which sound is amplified many times. In the course of the tests an orchestra playing many miles away was clearly heard by passengers while the automobile was Jogging along at thirty miles an hour. A message from Massachusetts was picked up.
TONIGHT’S PROGRAM INDIANAPOLIS STATION WOH— S.tsi p. in., musical program. CHICAGO STATION KYW—--6:30 p. m., news, final market and financial report. 7:30 p. m., children's bedtime story. 8:00—9:00 p. m . musical program by Amy Leslie Tuskey, soprano: Edward Freeman, baritone: Virginia Rice, harpist ; Walter Keller, accompanist; John R. Brown, accompanist. Sccue from the play. “Lilac Time," by Jcss4c Royce Lnudls, Frank L. Bennett, Edward Sacks. 0:00 p. m., news and reports. SCHENECTADY. N. Y’., STATION WGY —(Eastern time). 7:00 p m , market quotations supplied by New Y'ork State department of farms and markets and weather reports. SPRINGFIELD MASS., STATION WBZ —(Eastern time). 7.30 p. m., bedtime story. 7 :45 p. in., special business review. 8:00 p. m.. musical program. PITTSBURGH. STATION KDKA—(Eastern time). 8:00 p. m., “The Human Side of Banking," by J. O. Miller, Pittsburgh. S:3O p. m., vocal and Instrumental selections by Grace Sefton Mayers, soprano; Ferdingnd Pomayer, violinist ; Miss Esther Serenkel, accompanist. i 9:55 p. m., Arlington time signals. NEWARK. N. J., STATION WJ£— (Eastern time). 7:30 p m.. Death of Sitting Bull by Frank Winch. 8.00 p m., concert by the New York Evening Mall, Charles Isaacson, ditector. 9 :S0 p. m., concert. Claremont Male Quartette. DETROIT. MICn., STATION WWJ—(Eastern time). 9:30 p. m., phonograph music. GOVERNOR ISLAND, STATION WYP —(Signal Corps, U. S. Army) (Ea € sttprn Mine). 8:50 p. in., lecture. 9:00 p. m., concert. ATLANTA. GA„ STATION WSB—(Eastern time). 6:00 p. m„ sports and late news, 8:00 p. m.. musical program, CHICAGO. STATION Will'-City Hall. programs from time to time. DAVENPORT, lOWA. STATION WOC—--5.45 p. m., chimes concert. 7:00 p,. m., musical program. NEWSPAPERS. Instead of crushing old newspapers and magazines Into a paper bag, why not stack them In bundles and tie them up? Whether you sell them or give them away, it is easier for the man who gathers them.
APRIL 17, 1922.
RADIOPHONE IS CAR EQUIPMENT Local Company Uses Device as Advertising Feature. An automobile equipped with a prae tical radio receiving set is one of the advertising features of the Hoosier Radio Company, which has just opened a store in the building of the Merchants Heat & Light Company, Meridian and Washington streets, L. H. Smyth, president of the Company, L is the first man to open in Indianapolis a store devoted exclusively {o radio supplies. It was only last August that he opened his first store in modest quarters at 1349 South Meridian street anti almost instantly it was found that the room was too small to meet the demands put upon it. So in January of this year the store was moved to larger and more convenient quarters In the* Pembroke Arcade. Almost before thty were occupied Jt was found they were too small and now Smyth, with E'. A. Sheffield, have opened a store wit* commodious quarters In the very heart of-the downtown business district. “It certainly Is Interesting and amusing to Jpok back only g few months ago," Mr. Smyth said, “and recall that I was looked upon as something of a nut. because I was so ridiculously foolish as to open a store for the sale of supplies for rajdo to amateurs. The Idea that such a thing possibly could succeed was branded as an irupossiblity from a commerical standpoint, and yet these same persons are now forced to admit that the radio business has become of the most thoroughly established that can be imagined. "Tbe remarkable part of it all is that th' radiophone Is still In Its Infancy and in a few years, I believe the instrument will be almost a necessity in every home.”
Legion Notes A legion commander for the first time maae Us of the radio telephone In broadcasting a message to the ex-service men of America when Hanford MacNider stood in Detroit. Mich., and from station WW.I sent 8n faster greeting that was heard in all Middle-Western State's and as far south as the Gulf. The fine points of braverv are not unknown to Governor Harry‘L. Davis of r!~ but when he was asked to pick lent fh aV p, t ”' 90l(llp r in Ohio to represent the Buckeye population at a national assemblage In San Francisco, Cal., he declined the large responsibility. At hig •guest the American Legion undertook *e selection. f-n°L S ° n whsob A i r - Thompson, Cheyenne (Wjo.i policeman, in haled in , 1-81106 during ihe war four years ago, had caused him to lose twenty-six teeth according to a report made by the Ameriacn Legion. The policeman record ered from a long illness, after the teetn Uiia been removed. Smarting red eyes among Brooklyn (N. i.J school children caused several shoo owners to be haled Into court. It was found that merchants were selling a wartime device for purlfving water consumed by soldiers as “toy bombs." which tnrew off poison fumes upon exploding. A eomrolfcity playground will be erected by the American Legion at Nashville, Tenn., the ex-soldiers bearing the expense of apparatus and upkeep. Bo confident are tne ex-service men of Emporia, Kan., that the adjusted compensation measure will be p>- .sed by the Senate that the American" Legion members of that place have pledged $3,000 of the expected money to be used as the nucleus of a fund to erect a suitable community clubhouse. In Korea, where Ford's cost $1 012 50 former members of the A. E. F. have banded themselves together under the leadership of M. L. Swinehart. treasurer of the Southern Presbyterian Mission of the Hermit Kingdom, and formed a post of the American Legion. About a dozen ex-fighters, most of the missionaries, made up the post membership. .. Former Navy radio operators and members of the Army Signal Corps have organized under the auspices of the American Legion in Nebraska and are breadcasting market reports, weather forecasts and weekly mpstcal concerts to the rapidly growing legion of wireless telephone users. The aid of Mayor Curley of Boston, Mass., other city iflflclals, the American Legion and the American consult at Sidney, N. S., was required before a Yank ex-service man, “stranded" with his ramily in Nova Scotia, couM be brought back to his Boston home. The fcgion paid the bills the man h..d v inourred and the officials unwound the necessary red tape. The superstition ~that all Armv top sergeants are “hard boilded” took' wing whom an investigator unearthed one extop kick in Chicago who is spending his time trying to locate Jobs for ex service men as his part of the American Legion's campaign to find work for World War veterans. When two desperate criminals broke Jail at Springfield, Tenn., and took refuge in the woods, the chief of police called on the AmerlcanLeglon after his own force had failed In its effort to capture his former guests. The ex-service men formed a battle line and the two fugitives were landed back In the calaboose.
Unusual Folk PHILADELPHIA, April 17.—How many people are capable of earning their living for scholastic and collegiate cholalrshlps 8 b 'sh school four years ago. Miss Thurlow has won scholarships aggreC fipPPini J' ears a SO won scholPJP ’ - arshlps valued at Miss Thurlow. more than $3,000.
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